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The distribution of manufacturing overhead costs to individual product unit, or production batches generally, requires a base or a cost driver, to which reference a rate, known as material burden rate applies. Material burden is the amount of manufacturing overhead costs that a unit of the base carries.
burden rate. A factory or manufacturing overhead rate used to allocate, apply, assign, or spread indirect product costs to items manufactured. Under traditional cost accounting, the burden rate might be a percentage of direct labor cost, or an hourly dollar amount for each direct labor hour or machine hour. Related Q&A.